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October 10, 2024. Dr. De Fazio has recently published an edited volume with University of Virginia Press titled “Lynching in Virginia: Racial Terror and Its Legacy” Although not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a...
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May 14, 2024. Recent research has confirmed that another black man, William Stokes, had been lynched in Dinwiddie county, in 1888. Stokes was accused of entering the home of a black farmer with the intention of raping his daughter; after his arrest, unknown men took...
1880-1889, Dinwiddie |
Previous LynchingNext Lynching Victim ID: VA1888061601 Victim Name: William Stokes Race: Black Sex: Male Age: 25-27 Job: Farmer Method of Death: Shot Accusation: Attempted rape of a colored woman Date: 1888-06-16 County Name: Dinwiddie Mob Composition: Unknown men...
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January 31, 2024. Dr. Gianluca De Fazio recently released a new digital project: Memorializing Racial Terror: Lynching Markers in the United States. This project catalogs and maps all the historical markers commemorating victims of lynching in the United States, thus...
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January 30, 2024. Archeologist and historian Kathy Liston examines the life and death of Joseph Holmes in her essay ‘‘Lynching a Legislator: The Joseph R. Holmes Story.‘ Born into slavery, Joe Holmes was elected at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of...
